An alternate solution, if you know for sure that C is the child of B
and B is the child of A,



/A [B/C/@name ="something"]



Note: Not tested



Thanks,

Prakash



Paul Popiel wrote:

  want to get element A not C.

also would prefer to stay away from using .. if possible.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Johannesen [mailto:alexander.johannesen@g...]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:42 AM
To: Paul Popiel
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Simple XPath question


On 8/3/05, Paul Popiel <PaulP@a...> wrote:
  
  
    whats a clean xpath expression to get the element A which has a child
element C with @name=something
    
  
  <!---->
Clean? Hmm. :)

   //C[@name='something' and ../../node::name() = 'A']

{untested, of course}


Alex
  




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